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ABC News Personal Liberty Poll, April 1995 (ICPSR 3842)

Principal Investigator(s):ABC News

Summary:

This special topic poll was undertaken to assess
respondents' opinions on the extent of their personal liberties.
Respondents were asked whether they felt federal laws improperly
intruded on their personal liberties and if so, whether the
government was trying to take away more of their personal liberties.
Respondents' indicated whether they felt that their personal
liberties had been intruded on by taxes or a ban on assault weapons,
whether these intrusions were major or minor, and whether they were
justified. Respond... (more info)

This special topic poll was undertaken to assess
respondents' opinions on the extent of their personal liberties.
Respondents were asked whether they felt federal laws improperly
intruded on their personal liberties and if so, whether the
government was trying to take away more of their personal liberties.
Respondents' indicated whether they felt that their personal
liberties had been intruded on by taxes or a ban on assault weapons,
whether these intrusions were major or minor, and whether they were
justified. Respondents were polled on whether the United Nations had
too much, not enough, or the right amount of power and influence in
the United States. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of
how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) handled the standoff
with the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, and whether the amount
of force used by the FBI was justified or excessive. Background
information includes sex, political orientation, and political
ideology.

Universe:
Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) Additional information about sampling,
interviewing, weighting, and sampling error may be found in the
codebook. (2) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff.
ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection
in essentially the same form in which they were received. When
appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document
Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific
formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents'
anonymity. (3) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable
Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by
Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.

Methodology

Sample:
Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within
households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the
household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of the
interview.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Restrictions: This data collection may not be used for any purpose
other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to
learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2004-03-03

Version History:

2007-07-06 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have
been added to this data collection.